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How to identify disturbing emotions, their causes and antidotes, and transform them to bring inner peace.

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Working with Emotions

Strengthening and maintaining mental well-being—the ...

Keeping mentally healthy from a Buddhist perspective.

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Healing Anger

Working with anger, part 2

How we can use antidotes to counteract anger.

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Healing Anger

Working with anger, part 1

An explanation of the Buddhist view of anger and how to work with it.

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Working with Emotions

Compassion for oneself, compassion for others

How we can overcome self-hatred and self-criticism and learn to be more kind and friendly…

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Working with Emotions

Cultivating loving-kindness

Practical ways to cultivate kindness towards ourselves and others in our daily lives.

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An Open-Hearted Life

Compassion as an antidote to low-self esteem

How compassion works as an antidote to low self-esteem.

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An Open-Hearted Life

Fear of compassion

How it takes time to form trusting relationships with others who have been harmed in…

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An Open-Hearted Life

Friends who give bad advice

How habitual disturbing emotions are like friends giving bad advice.

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An Open-Hearted Life

Compassion gone awry

How compassion without wisdom and a good motivation can go awry.

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Love and Self-esteem

Seeing kindness everywhere

By recognizing the kindness all around us we will open our hearts to everyone.

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An Open-Hearted Life

Removing partiality

By recognizing our differences are superficial we can overcome our partiality and biases.

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Working with Emotions

Be your own therapist

How to pay attention to, identify, and unpack the thoughts that inform our emotions in…

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